New Delhi: The family members of a man, who died in an accident involving a rashly driven motorcycle, have been awarded a compensation of over Rs 17 lakh by a Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) here.
The tribunal directed United India Insurance Company Ltd, with which the motorcycle w...

Jhargram: A local court Thursday charged the key accused in the Netai massacre, CPI-M leader Anuj Pandey with murder and remanded him to jail custody till May 12.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Krishna Murari Prasad Gupta passed the order when Pandey, the former West Midnapore CPI-...

Patna: Continuing with his tirade against Bihar Assembly Speaker for recognising rebel MLAs as separate group, Lalu Prasad on Wednesday poured more scorn on him and alleged that he took a hardcore naxal as his aide to Japan on official expense.
"Speaker Uday Narayan Chaudhary took a hard...

Varanasi: A government official was allegedly shot dead by some motorbike-borne assailants in Chaubeypur area here, police said on Tuesday.
Krishna Murari Yadav (32), working as Additional Basic Siksha Adhikari (ABSA) in Ghazipur district, was shot dead by bike-borne assailants near his ...

New Delhi: Delhi Law Minister Somnath Bharti, indicted by a court for "tampering of evidence" in a case he appeared as a defence lawyer, has informed the Bar Council of Delhi that he intends to surrender his licence to practice law.
Murari Tiwari, the secretary of Bar Council of Delhi (BC...

Mumbai: Bombay High Court has directed Maharashtra government to file an affidavit on a PIL alleging that primary schools in the state were not complying with its earlier full bench order making it mandatory for teachers to have D.Ed qualification.
Hearing the PIL, a bench headed by Just...

New Delhi: The Delhi Bar Council on Tuesday sought a response from A P Singh, the counsel for convicts in the December 16 gang-rape case, for his remarks that he would have burnt alive his daughter had she been having premarital sex and moving around at night with her boyfriend.
In a meet...

Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court Monday declared the monthly allowances given to Imams and muezzins by the West Bengal government as unconstitutional.
A division bench of Justices Pranab Kumar Chattopadhyay and Murari Prasad Shrivastava made the observation while hearing a public interes...

Jaipur: Clashes between rival groups leading to cases of stabbing and vandalisation, including an attack at a Rajasthan minister`s house, marked students` body elections in the state today, police said.
Students and supporters of candidates contesting the polls barged into the residence o...

Ranchi: A two-member high-level team has been appointed by the Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren to probe the police firing that claimed a life at Pagar village in Hazaribagh district on Tuesday.
North Chhotanagpur Divisional Commissioner Nitin Madan Kulkarni and Inspector-General of...

New Delhi: A Delhi court has sentenced a former Superintendent of Police of CBI to four years to jail for taking a bribe from a man in return for a promise to save him in a criminal case.
Special CBI Judge Manoj Jain handed down the jail term to convict Murari Lal, who was under suspensio...

Indore: No new tax has imposed in the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC)`s Rs 1979.55 crore budget for FY 2013-14 presented on Monday.
The budget lays emphasis on improving drainage system, water supply, road works, revival and cleaning of wells in the city, which is the commercial capit...

Giridih: Six fugitive Maoists if surrender, would not be charged with hatching the plot that led to their escape following the November 11 attack on the transit van claiming lives of four policemen in Giridih town, a top police official said on Sunday.
"If the six Maoists (who fled after...

Chennai: A book on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam leader V Prabhakaran was on Monday released here by city-based historian S Muthiah.
`The Prabhakaran Saga - The Rise and Fall of an Eelam Warrior`, authored by senior journalist S Murari, depicts how Prabhakaran built LTTE as an org...